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The Carnegie School of Home Economics (CSHE) is compiling a cookbook of healthy indigenous recipes and has issued a call for submissions from indigenous persons countrywide.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil is at risk of facing a more serious incident than the Jan.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – An Argentine judge sentenced 19 former military officers to prison yesterday for crimes against humanity committed during the country’s brutal military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, including for kidnappings of auto plant workers.

Thanks to a recent Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) training initiative,  Community Service Officers (CSOs) from several communities in Region Eight can now carry out installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of GWI’s photovoltaic pumping systems in their communities.

KYIV/KRAMATORSK,  (Reuters) – Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said attempts by the West to punish a nuclear power such as Russia for the war in Ukraine risked endangering humanity, as the near five-month conflict leaves cities in ruins and thousands homeless.

(Barbados Nation) Before making any attempts to revive LIAT – much less establish a new regional airline – Caribbean governments must recognise that there are still more than 600 former employees of the regional carrier out of work and facing severe hardship.

Buxton wine producer Abigale John will be showcasing and selling her product at the upcoming International Building Expo, after complaining to a panel of ministers that she was unable to secure a spot at the event.

Kwakwani Secondary as well as President’s College ‘A’, and ‘B’ teams, recorded lopsided wins in the girls division when the ExxonMobil National School Basketball Festival (NSBF) continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Monkeypox virus has been confirmed in Jamaica. Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton told a press conference yesterday afternoon that the case is a man who recently returned to Jamaica from the United Kingdom.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A Califor-nia man was found guilty yesterday of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Grammy-winning Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle in 2019.

Banks DIH Limited says it has intensified its recruitment drive with another exercise on July 3rd, 2022 at Patentia Tarmac, West Bank Demerara.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied pressure to quit yesterday from senior ministers and a mounting rebellion within his ruling Conservative Party, saying he will fight off any attempts to oust him over a series of scandals.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Cabinet ministers gathered in Boris Johnson’s official residence today to tell him to quit as British leader, after he insisted he would not stand down in the face of a mounting rebellion within his party.

President  Irfaan Ali and Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley yesterday signed an updated and augmented copy of the Saint Barnabas Accord, paving the way for the two countries to further dialogue in nine areas, a release from the Office of the President said.

(Jamaica Information Service) The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries will be launching a wheat flour substitution programme to combat the global shortage of the commodity and promote healthier eating among Jamaicans.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – On July 11 last year, Cuba appeared poised for political change.

By Aviso Paul After an almost month-long probe, Lance Corporal Kristoff DeNobrega was yesterday charged with the murder of Quindon Bacchus, the youth who was shot dead last month after what was initially claimed to be a shootout with lawmen.

The soldier who is accused of strangling and dumping the body of an East Canje woman in a drain opposite his house along the Coren-tyne Highway was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with her murder.

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton, retired Assistant Commissioner of Police Paul Slowe and APNU+AFC MP Christopher Jones have written to the Chief Justice asking for urgent hearings regarding their respective matters on the appointment of the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC)—an injunction to halt any promotion of members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) by the new PSC—and President Irfaan Ali’s appointment of Clifton Hicken as the acting Commissioner of Police.

Venezuela will begin supplying several CARICOM countries with oil as regional heads have agreed to resume the PetroCaribe agreement and have called for the end to US sanctions that brought it to an end, says Ralph Gonsalves, the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.